linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: remove redundant checking in ext4_ioctl

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Message-Id: <20220918115219.12407-1-guoqing.jiang@linux.dev>
Date:   Sun, 18 Sep 2022 19:52:19 +0800
From:   Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@...ux.dev>
To:     tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: remove redundant checking in ext4_ioctl_checkpoint

It is already checked after comment "check for invalid bits set",
so let's remove this one.

Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@...ux.dev>
---
 fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index 3cf3ec4b1c21..80678af1fa7c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -1060,9 +1060,6 @@ static int ext4_ioctl_checkpoint(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
 	if (!EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	if (flags & ~EXT4_IOC_CHECKPOINT_FLAG_VALID)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	if ((flags & JBD2_JOURNAL_FLUSH_DISCARD) &&
 	    !bdev_max_discard_sectors(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal->j_dev))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-- 
2.31.1